LA local journalism is in danger yall!!

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❤️‍🔥 Cerise Castle and the folks of Knock LA are trying to regain ownership of their journalism! Help put the pressure on!

Looking to hire a great journalist? Looking to find a great media job? Check out this initiative from Meera Pattni over at Semafor.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

What gets me f*cked up is that fact that these 'nontraditional media forms' are not new kinds of media! TikTok news anchors literally make our stories their video backgrounds Social media's profit model is using our work and not to paying us for it. It's a rip-off engine.

W/ the end of COVID child care funding near, we thought hard about how we wanted to tell this story.

We settled on showing the fallout of a closure on 1 center, 1 community, 1 group of parents.

The projections are 70,000 closures in the next few months.
19thnews.org/2023/08/child-…

third culture this, child of immigrants that, identity through food this, cultural preservation that……wrote about a new era of night markets for Eater LA

so happy I got to work with Virali Dave on this

la.eater.com/2023/6/1/23745…

This is the kind of reporting that stays with you, balled up in your chest.

“Please, if Lexi’s in there, just let me sit with her,” Kim said. “All I want to do is be with her. I don’t want her to be alone.” texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

Please read the story that’s been 30+ years in the making, taught me the real meaning of fomo, humbled me to filth about the specialness of my own story—and gave me a sisterhood I never knew I needed so much nyti.ms/3VREJu3

'RRR's' 'Naatu Naatu' made Oscars history. But South Asian dancers feel betrayed latimes.com/entertainment-…

This is why we MUST support our local news outlets!!! Riveting story with so many twists and details. And photos! Perfect headline, perfect length (LONG) — just a phenomenal job all around: mlive.com/news/saginaw-b…

WHAT….

New by me —>

Alden Global Capital makes for a better Hollywood villain — but the scale of local news destruction in Gannett's markets is simply astonishing.

Staff size is down 59% in 4 years.

At its biggest local papers, paid readers are down 77%.

niemanlab.org/2023/03/the-sc…

The US is seeing an unprecedented wave of migrant child labor right now.

Thousands of kids are working overnight in dangerous factories for brands like Cheerios, Fruit of the Loom and Ford. They're here alone and they're being failed in the most basic way.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/…

✨So, SO excited for this one: I got to profile the queen of romcoms, the queen of YA, one of my favorite authors of all time: The legend @MegCabot, for The Conversationalist

conversationalist.org/2023/02/14/pro…

I wrote about why people are obsessed with being seen as a 'good person' even if they buy Hogwarts Legacy vox.com/the-goods/2359…

A survivor of the Sandy Hook School mass shooting in 2012 is a student at Michigan State University: “I am 21-years-old and this is the second mass shooting I’ve lived through. We can no longer allow this to happen. We can no longer be complacent.”

New from me: I spoke to Auntie Nikki is a Virgo💛 🐝, the owner of Octavia's Bookshelf, about how she planned her dream bookstore and what it means to contribute to the growing legacy of Octavia Butler's mark on Pasadena. It opens this Saturday. latimes.com/entertainment-…

Over a million kids vanished from public schools during the pandemic. Some went to private schools. Others started home-schooling. But hundreds of thousands are still unaccounted for, according to an analysis by The Associated Press and BIG LOCAL NEWS.
apnews.com/article/covid-…

Ok here's a long thread (with many links!) about Florida student athletes being asked to report their menstrual history.

Many national outlets have picked this up, so I want to bring you along on the ~journey~ that has been reporting this story.
palmbeachpost.com/story/news/edu…